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Master boot record

fisty · 2001-04-26 22:49:00

just a quick question geeks does formatting you're drive get rid of the master boot record? Cheeurs!! :P

26-04-2001 10:49pm

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fisty

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just a quick question geeks
does formatting you're drive get rid of the master boot record?
Cheeurs!! :P

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#2 26-04-2001 11:48pm

chernobyl

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yeah its my understanding it does.
windows writes to the mbr on the very first boot.
if you wanna format it manually though
from a boot disk
A:\fdisk /mbr
make sure you dont have a supervisor pass enabled on the bios or it will report your format as a virus.

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#3 26-04-2001 11:57pm

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Formatting in DOS does not remove the MBR.

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